usurpature

English

Noun

usurpature (usually uncountable, plural usurpatures)

1. (archaic) Usurpation.
   • 1855, Robert Browning, “Master Hugues of Saxe-Gotha”, in Men and Women […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, stanza 23, page 201:

     God's gold just shining its last where that lodges, / Palled beneath Man's usurpature!

References

• “usurpature”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Latin

Participle

ūsūrpātūre

1. vocative masculine singular of ūsūrpātūrus